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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One on Nov. 16, 2025.

Trump: No one can stop me

Alex Galbraith

Following a recent attack on Venezuela, the president says the only person who can stop him is himself

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) (Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump rages as Senate weighs war powers

Garrett Owen

A measure to limit the president's war powers advanced with bipartisan support in the Senate on Tuesday

Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz makes a speech during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on August 21, 2024. (Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images)

FBI bullies MN cops off of ICE probe

Garrett Owen

State authorities were forced to "reluctantly withdraw" from the probe into the killing of Renee Good

Crown Prince Christian of Denmark participates in the Danish Armed Forces Lieutenant Training at Antvorskov Guard Hussar Barracks on August 14, 2025 in Slagelse, Denmark. (Photo by Martin Sylvest Andersen/Getty Images)

Denmark ready to fight US for Greenland

Garrett Owen

The Trump administration has floated purchasing or invading the Danish territory

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Noah Wyle in "The Pitt" (Warrick Page/HBO Max)

The prescriptive comforts of "The Pitt"

Melanie McFarland

HBO Max’s hit drama offers a vision of care and connection amid expanding national trauma

Donald Trump takes questions at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 22, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump demands $6M from dismissed case

Garrett Owen

The president seeks to use a new Georgia law allowing defendants to collect on dismissed cases

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 07: A bullet hole is seen in the windshield of a vehicle involved in a shooting by an ICE agent during federal law enforcement operations on January 07, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to federal officials, the agent, "fearing for his life" killed a woman during a confrontation in south Minneapolis. ((Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images))

ICE killing of Good sparks conspiracies

Russell Payne

Many in MAGA world are spinning the shooting of Renee Good as “self-defense”

President Donald Trump 
shakes hands with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

War is fashionable again for the GOP

Heather Digby Parton

The right's detour into pacifism under Trump was never going to stick

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Veterans rally against President Donald Trump in Milan, Michigan, on Nov. 11, 2025. ( Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

America needs a moral reckoning in 2026

Chauncey DeVega

Defeating Trumpism requires fluency in moral language

Boy get cold and blow her nose at home. (Vera Livchak / Getty Images)

Navigating the worst flu season in years

Nicole Karlis

A mutated flu strain is pummeling patients. Avoiding getting sick won't be easy

Trump insurrectionists cheer as more of the crowd gains access to the U.S. Capitol on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

J6 rioters have a recidivism problem

Mariel Padilla - The 19th

Five years after the Capitol attack, many of the pardoned rioters have been arrested again

The Wyoming state Supreme Court building is in downtown Cheyenne Wyoming not far from the state capitol. The building also houses the state library. (Photo by Don and Melinda Crawford/Getty Images)

GOP amendment kills Wyoming abortion ban

Jelinda Montes

A state constitutional amendment responding to Obamacare helped overturn Wyoming abortion bans

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U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago club on January 03, 2026, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump admin defends oil tanker seizures

Garrett Owen

A recent seizure of a Russian-flagged tanker was met with criticism internationally

Mayor Jacob Frey used salty language to condemn the shooting of a Minneapolis resident by ICE  in Minneapolis, Minn., on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Getty Images)

Frey to ICE: "Get the f**k out"

Garrett Owen

Frey's comments drew immediate scorn from the Trump administration

Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" (1976) (FilmPublicity Archive/United Archives via Getty Images)

Taxi Driver & other 2026 anniversaries

Joy Saha

From “The Devil Wears Prada" to Google's historic acquisition of YouTube, this year offers plenty to celebrate

Ilulissat, Greenland (Getty/Sean Gallup)

Europe prepares as Trump eyes Greenland

Jelinda Montes

France meets with allies to determine next steps as Trump threatens Greenland

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 07: Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) speaks during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing about the Trump Administration's decision to freeze $10 billion in child care funds for families with low incomes in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York at the U.S. Capitol on January 07, 2026 in Washington, DC. Federal prosecutors filed charges against dozens of people in Minnesota, many from the area's Somali community, with stealing upwards of billions of taxpayer dollars through fraudulent social services schemes. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Dems respond to childcare fund freezes

Jelinda Montes

Five Democratic-led states lose access to essential childcare funds following Minnesota welfare fraud scandal

Lindsey Halligan, attorney for U.S. President Donald Trump, looks on during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House, on March 31, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)

Halligan grilled over US attorney title

Garrett Owen

Halligan's appointment to the role was found to be unlawful last year

President Donald Trump watches Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's capture unfold in Washington on January 3, 2026. (Donald Trump's Truth Social Account/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump treated Venezuela like must-see TV

Andi Zeisler

It was his latest move in a quest to revive monoculture — in his own image

Activists protest President Donald Trump's military action in Venezuela on Jan. 6, 2026 in Pasadena, California. (Frederic J. BROWN / AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA wants to be a colonial power

Sophia Tesfaye

First Venezuela, now Greenland: Trump is promoting an international Manifest Destiny updated for the 21st century

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A United States and Christian flag are sandwiched together (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Sorry, GOP. There's no Christian revival

Amanda Marcotte

Republicans are betting the midterms on mass conversions that aren't happening

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Trump's Surgeon General pick is "grift"

Russell Payne

Casey Means’ promotion of supplements and pseudoscience worry medical professionals

resident Donald Trump takes questions from the press in the Oval Office on Nov. 18, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

US races into autocratic new year

Shelley Inglis - The Conversation

What does this transition from a liberal America in the world to an autocratic U.S. look like?

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Finance Committee. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

RFK's vaccine changes spark backlash

Jelinda Montes

Numerous vaccines were removed from the childhood immunization schedule in a historic move led by RFK Jr.

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